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As much as I would like to believe 8GB cards not selling is due to the hard work of all of us in warning the populace that 8GB isn't good enough nowadays, in reality I thought that very few of the low end cards were bought by consumers directly - its the system integrators making prebuilds, and...

Re Stop Killing Games: To be clear, there are definitely cases where companies use always online connection checks as a form of anti-piracy, killing any long-term preservation (or even ownership), but this seems like it has wide ranging implications beyond end-of-life scenarios. DLC - Many...

As the old adage goes, there's no accounting for taste. Kids (or the kid-level intelligence adults) like seeing the dinosaurs go 'Raaawr!', I guess. I expect Rebirth will do slightly worse than Dominion (especially accounting for inflation) and still be around the #5 US movie for the year - it...

To be clear, 2.3 was supposed to come out ~a week ago, but was supposed to be on the scale of 2.2 - so some minor features, and maybe a cut gig from the base game restored. Unless 2.3 is six new fixers vending radiant / repeatable NCPD scanner hustles, it seems very likely there's something...

What is or is not going on with Cyberpunk is a whole rabbit hole: When Phantom Liberty launched, as Foggy said, CDPR did say that this was it until the sequel, other than a handful of bug fixes. Then 2.1 came out with new features, with one of the senior devs asking what cyberware players...

There's just not much to Neuromancer, and its not like you can add much from Count Zero, given that it's an entirely new cast. I suppose you could maybe work in some random Burning Chrome bits, but the only really relevant chunks (namely Molly's participation in Johnny Mnemonic) are going to be...

Look, I want to give Edgar Wright the benefit of the doubt for past service to mankind (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz), but this did not do it for me. Yeah, it matches the book setting more (where the entire country is theoretically after them, and they have to record and mail video testimonials...

There may be a lot of loot, but the mounts are still not guaranteed by any means. Blizz admitted the actual scenario is more like they're 5% drops at best. Out of the mythic raids I've seen: O/114 Sylvs 0/103 Jailers 5/99 Nines .. which is rapidly getting to statistically broken levels (aka the...

Adjusted for inflation, it's in a dead heat for second worst with The Eternals, within a million of each other, depending on which inflation index you're using. If anything overtakes The Marvels, the franchise is over.

I always think of Pugh as the anti-Brie Larson. Personality-wise, she comes across as quite charming, in press and Black Widow / Hawkeye. Physically, she's near the bottom of Marvel gals, with her squat stature, pug nose, minimal breasts, and (lack of) muscle tone. (Not that Evangeline Lilly...

Mike is now actively providing vocals for Noiselund songs? This has gone too far.

To be clear, if this seems interesting to you, just read / listen to the book. Much like The Martian or the original script of Interstellar, it'll be better than the movie. But to address Warrik's points (spoilered, but still going to keep it vague):

It's a tough call - you both need to include the alien stuff as a powerful hook to the audience (and also to narratively separate it from The Martian), but you also need to not scare off the potential audience that will immediately assume this is an Aliens situation, by establishing off the bat...

Yeah, of course Ford vs Ferrari is great, Mangold knows what's he doing as well. Haven't made it there yet, but every review I've seen is that Kosinski's visuals for F1 are the car-based equivalent of Top Gun Maverick and benefit from the biggest, loudest screen possible - and as others have...

Honestly, legacy raid drops (especially mounts) aren't the problem for serious collectors, as you can always just throw more characters per account per week at the problem until the RNG takes mercy on you, especially with how many easy 70s Pandaria Remix or the pre-launch events would throw at...

Not to mention its almot certainly getting more content still. My guess is a set of missions that tie into the next Netflix anime, hitting the unused chunks of the map before the sequel moves to Chicago, but whether thats free DLC or a for-money expansion is unclear.

Reading through the plot synopses, and Christ, this sounds like the most racist (but the 'racism' is 100% accurate) media in years. Which... makes me assume the Mephisto rumors are true, and the ending is Riri acknowledging all of the above and retconning the show out of existence, right...

Warsteeds could never get their sync issues worked out, and yeah, other than getting from point A to point B on flat terrain, are abandoned afterward. Big battles aren't that bad, however - as instanced content, lag wasn't too extreme. Honestly, most of their problems were UI based - where is...

Bear in mind that both the Lilo and Stitch (about $10M this weekend) and How to Train Your Dragon (about $37M this weekend) remakes are also in theaters, splitting the audience. The more important point is those two remakes opened to $146M and $85M their first weekends, respectively, matching...

1) This is a spinoff of BP 2, which made a chunk of the Dora Milaje gay and might have included a tranny? This shouldn't surprise you. 2) Again, the original version was filmed yeaaars ago - possibly before any of the most recent Doctor Who had aired. So no, there's no guarantee they even had a...

Somehow Darth Helmet returned? It would be nice to see Brooks and especially Moranis again, but my expectations are very limited.

I agree, which is why Gunn included his true muse, Nathan Fillion, as this'll be their fourth comic movie together (if you include the filmed but cut Wonder Man bits from GotG 2). But the statement that this has to be money laundering, when the highly successful GotG1 had even more locations...

Do people not remember Guardians of the Galaxy? Other than the start of the movie with the walkman and oldies establishing that Chris Pratt is from Earth, and relatively recently, Gunn then throws in an endless stream of new characters / factions / locations at the viewer, which general...

To be clear, cartridges were extremely expensive by modern standards, and took forever to get made. That was literally the original point and timing of E3 - Toys R Us, Kmart, Kaybee, and whomever else existed back then would see the game at E3 in the summer, order 50k/75/30k each, and that would...

As someone that was never a DC guy, I am interested in seeing it, but it's a dry intellectual interest in seeing what Gunn does with tone and setup for this version of the DC universe. It's definitely the movie I want to see most this (remainder of) summer, but that's just lack of interest in...

I thought NIL deals were a bridge too far, as they allowed well-heeled donors to sign 'endorsement' deals to outbid their collegiate competition. Now this is just the schools directly cutting out the proxy. I can buy the argument that the average player doesn't have time to hold a part time...

I think I've been to Best Buy twice in the last decade: Once ~5 years back when my headset broke and needed one immediately for meetings later that day. Once recently when my nephew's PC shorted out and I needed another power supply to swap in for testing (again, immediately). I too cannot...

That's actually packing incompetence. This would be called chimney stacking - there's virtually no overlapping bricks/boxes between layers. Removing any brick means its entire vertical column is now at risk of collapsing, due to no support from other columns, which is dangerous to whomever has...

Certainly the surprise of E3.... 's corpse to me. Not sure what it is with sci-fi games where "Fuck it, I'll do it myself" (Starfield to Outer Worlds, Mass Effect to this) is the predominant theme, but I'm cool with it. Not sure about the 'alternate history?' angle of it - I thought the...

That hoped for or confirmed? Because that casting would work pretty well.

We should remember that nearly everyone on this thread is a middle-aged man, which means by pop culture terms, we're all old dead fossils. Even a decade+ ago I would run into twenty-somethings that preferred the prequels over the OT due to their pacing. Hell, I will reiterate that even out of...

Its directed by Len Wiseman (Underworld, that utterly forgotten Total Recall reboot), so I would calibrate your enthusiasm regardless. (Though I have to admit, I didn't think his Die Hard 4 was terrible.)

What's amusing to me is Johnny was never mentioned - apparently even potentially bi- white men are still unacceptable. And yes, Womyn Power! has been the concern since the first trailer.

Yeah, I'm not sure I buy that projection, GotG 3 only did $118M its first weekend, and everyone knows who, say, Rocket Raccoon is by the third movie. How much of the general audience knows who Mister Terrific is? Hell, if we are talking DC specifically, The Batman only did $134M, and Superman...

FanFourStick made just $26M opening weekend and $56M total (in 2015 dollars). Add in uncertainty if 'the kids' will want the 60s setting, and I think this will be Marvel's clear second worst opening (after The Marvels' $46M / $84M), but it probably won't be the worst.

I would argue with that conclusion, just because there's more competition with the summer release schedule, both in terms of audience split and theatre counts. I'm thinking Thunderbolts ends up just under $185M.

Now that I think about it, this may be less due to Doomsday itself than Disney as a whole. To be clear, the movie was going to be a struggle for May - the Russos had publicly said trying to get it done on time might literally kill them. The FX are a problem, but not for the reason you'd...

Just like Infinity War, Doomsday will only be half a movie. But no, there's been no buildup for it, because they are of course desperately rewriting their Kang plans. Presumably there will be some minor linkage to Doom in Fantastic Four, but that movie already has enough to cover on its own...

I suppose if we are talking references to sci-fi set in Chicago, I, Robot would be one of the biggies. I believe the Divergent movies are also in future Chicago. Jake Gyllenhaal in Source Code is running around Chicago, though I don't recall where the military base his body is at actually is...

As Spronk said, Dedra just serves as a secondary/confirmation source - Galen sends the pilot and message to Saw on his own, but that both Luthen and Saw independently align on the details (such as Galen being involved) make the intel plausible.